William Byrd III (1728–1777)
Role
Byrd was an acquaintance of Bushrod Washington's family.
Description
William Byrd III was born on 6 September 1728 to William Byrd II and his second wife, Maria Taylor Byrd, at the family estate of Westover. Educated in London, he returned to Virginia and (in 1748) married Elizabeth Hill Carter (d. 1760). The two would have five children, three of whom Byrd sent to England to live with an uncle and aunt.
Citations
Emory G. Evans, "William Byrd (1728–1777)," in Sara B. Bearss et al., eds., The Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Volume II, Bland-Cannon (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2001), 470–72.
William Byrd at House History.
William Byrd III at Find a Grave.